Bavarian village builds church out of ice, snow

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Dec 30, 2011 at 12:01 AMDec 30, 2011 at 8:33 AM

MITTERFIRMIANSREUT, Germany (AP) - A 54-foot-long church built entirely of ice and snow has opened in Bavaria. The church at Mitterfirmiansreut, near the Czech border, is made up of 49,000 cubic feet of snow.

MITTERFIRMIANSREUT, Germany (AP) — A 54-foot-long church built entirely of ice and snow has opened in Bavaria.

The church at Mitterfirmiansreut, near the Czech border, is made up of 49,000 cubic feet of snow.

A century ago, the ancestors of today’s villagers built the first snow church.

Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser said: “It was meant as an act of provocation — believers from the village got together and built a snow church because they didn’t have a church.”

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